There are currently a lot of newer browser CAD projects that already wraps OCCT WASM, like FluidCAD and Chili3D. And as you said previously, current CAD tools are slow to improve, and part of the reason is because of using kernels first built in the 1980s, and projects like Shapr3D and Plasticity both hit limitations of their existing kernels and switched to Parasolid when their project got bigger, and OCCT's per entity tolerance issue is pretty well know by now.
On another topic, getting a plate with thousands of holes to mesh in under a second is some serious performance, and I do agree with your conclusion that most CAD apps are slow not because of programming language but because accurate NURBS math is inherently slow, but their is also the issues with the 2D constraint solver and fillet/boolean algorithms too. Happy to talk more about the geometry kernel stuff too.
origfla
Truly nice stuff. I've been looking into getting into 3-d printing recently and wondering could this output the kind of files I could use for that? Truly possibly a noob question, but just wondering if this could do that.
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mristroph
Just checked it out; the whole experience is incredibly smooth.
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androiddrew
I don't want cad. I want CAM. Where are the AI generated CAM clones?
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bpiroman
the landing page and copy is top quality
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brudgers
Congratulations on launching.
I would not bet a business that depends on CAD on something that only costs $19/month. Even if it didn't require taking a dependency on a website.
Or to put it AutoCad is cheaper than being sued. Good luck.
What is the geometry kernel? That's always the first question I have.
Figure I try pitching at least, but would you consider evaluating my Aetheris kernel to use as Aircad's geometry kernel over OCCT?
https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris
There are currently a lot of newer browser CAD projects that already wraps OCCT WASM, like FluidCAD and Chili3D. And as you said previously, current CAD tools are slow to improve, and part of the reason is because of using kernels first built in the 1980s, and projects like Shapr3D and Plasticity both hit limitations of their existing kernels and switched to Parasolid when their project got bigger, and OCCT's per entity tolerance issue is pretty well know by now.
On another topic, getting a plate with thousands of holes to mesh in under a second is some serious performance, and I do agree with your conclusion that most CAD apps are slow not because of programming language but because accurate NURBS math is inherently slow, but their is also the issues with the 2D constraint solver and fillet/boolean algorithms too. Happy to talk more about the geometry kernel stuff too.
Truly nice stuff. I've been looking into getting into 3-d printing recently and wondering could this output the kind of files I could use for that? Truly possibly a noob question, but just wondering if this could do that.
Just checked it out; the whole experience is incredibly smooth.
I don't want cad. I want CAM. Where are the AI generated CAM clones?
the landing page and copy is top quality
Congratulations on launching.
I would not bet a business that depends on CAD on something that only costs $19/month. Even if it didn't require taking a dependency on a website.
Or to put it AutoCad is cheaper than being sued. Good luck.